high school rush to cinema

as promised (this is a good sign, i don't usually follow up the promises in this blog, i'll backread soon and excavate the abandoned covenants), here are my top three hollywood high school flicks.

in chronological order:

Pretty in Pink (1986) even when i was a teenager i watched this over and over, in betamax. Andie seems like a smart, hardworking, good girl who just happens to be poor in hollywood standards.  i reckoned if that was destitute, then i was living a super deprived life, not having a room of my own and who wouldn't want to go out with a guy like Blane (eeww, rich people with their names)?  that's a BMW he's driving?  Andrew McCarthy  is so cute, i wished he'd never aged.  goes to show that beauty is  truly skin deep. or only ugly people say that?

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)


two actors -- Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.
it's a literal adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in the paradise of  the young and the good looking and katherina and petruchio (patrick verona) are feisty but lovable characters.

Mean Girls (2004)
written by Tina Fey
this makes me sad.  Rachel MacAdams and Amanda Seyfried are currently Hollywood It Girls. while Lindsay Lohan is reduced to posing for Playboy, the nadir of all has-beens and looks decades older than her chronological age of 25. and she can act. truly act. and even sing. but her voice may have been ruined by inhaling nicotine, tar, even nasty carcinogens.  i'm not sure if looks can be revitalized, once ageing occurs, it's there to stay.

this film tackles cliques, in high school.  there's also the constant need to be liked and become popular thus be with the in-crowd.

runners-up -- Bring It On (2000)
Clueless (1995)